Yup, I'm one of those too, although it wasn't that it was deemed socially unacceptable, it was because I couldn't afford the next gen, and my parents didn't believe in wasting money in video games. Played red for about 6 years of my childhood.

Or the guy that played it throughout middle school and saw the additional pokemon as a ploy to drag you back in, take your [parents'] money, and leave you broken and bleeding on the side of the road. I said fuck that shit. I had better shit to spend my [parents'] money on, like computer parts.